SOUND BEACH SCHOOL

Set in MILLER PLACE, New York, SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school, part of MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 476 students across grades 3 through 5.

MILLER PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,197 students; SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, SOUND BEACH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian, 2% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SOUND BEACH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at SOUND BEACH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 67.0%; SOUND BEACH SCHOOL posts 39.3%, -27.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUND BEACH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: ANDREW MULLER PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUND BEACH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 70.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 86% to 79%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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